Parag Warudkar wrote:> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Linus Torvalds> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:> >> And embedded people (the ones that might care about 1% code size) are the>> ones that would also want smaller stacks even more!> > This is something I never understood - embedded devices are not going> to run more than a few processes and 4K*(Few Processes)> IMHO is not worth a saving now a days even in embedded world given> falling memory prices. Or do I misunderstand?

Embedded applications span a huge range of sizes, from the very small devices to which you refer, to quite complex devices. The cable settop boxes we develop have over a hundred interrupt sources, typically run 250-300 threads, and have 192+ MiB of memory. For all that, we are very cost sensitive and are under constant pressure to come up with reliable ways to save memory.